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W. T. KELIQOGG.

DAUBER BRUSH.

No. 497,721. Patented May 16. 1893.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VARREN T. KELLOGG, OF LANSINGBURG, N EW' YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE EMPIRE PORTABLE FORGE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

DAUBER-BRUSH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 497,721, dated May 16, 1893.

Application filed July 21, 1892.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WARREN T. KELLOGG, of Lansingburg, county of Rensselaer, State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Dauber-Brushes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in that class of brushes which are used to apply blacking to boots and shoes, and which are termed dauber-brushes; and the object and purpose of my invention are to better adapt them to the uses for which they are designed, by means of an improved construction of brush-holder or body-part that is made with a grip-ring having open ends that are adapted to be pinched together to grasp and hold the bristles of the brush-proper; the construction of ribs vertically arranged on the interior surface of the grip-ring, and made to extend above the top of the latter to pass through and be clinched on the top of a cap, that covers the ends of the bristles within the gripring; all of which will bemorefully described hereinafter in connection with their illustration and set forth in the claims.

Accompanying this specification to form a part of it there saplate of drawings containing seven figures illustrating my invention with the same designation of parts by letter reference used in all of them.

Of these illustrations Figure 1, is a side elevation of `my improved dauber-brush. Fig. 2, is a central vertical section taken from end to end. Fig. 3, is a top view of the holder or body-part, the grip-ring and connected handle tang, with the brush-proper, the cap, the handle, and all of the vertical ribs, arranged on the inner surface of the grip-ring, but one, omitted. Fig. 4, is a top view of the holder or body-part and the grip-ring and the ribs vertically arranged therein to project above the top of the ring. Fig. 5, is a top view of the completed dauber-brush. Fig. 6, is a perspective of the gripring and the vertical ribs arranged on the inner surface of the latter made to project above the top of the ring, with the holder or body-part and handle tang omitted. Fig. 7 is atop View ofthe cap shown as detached.

The several parts of the dauber-brushtl1us illustrated are designated by letter reference,

Serial No. 440.766. (No modeLl and the function of the parts is described as follows:

The letter Il, designates the brl1sh-holder or body-part made with the grip-ring R, and T, a handle-tang made integrally with the holder or bodypart; said tang being made with longitudinally formed ribs r2, upon its sides; and the letter F, designates an eye formed in the outer end of the tang where passing through so as to extend beyond the handle H2, and d, a ring arranged to be held by said tang by which the brush may be hung up when not in use.

The grip-ring R, is cast in one piece of metal with the holder or body-part H, and also the tang T, and also the ribs, a, a, and a2 formed on the interior of the grip-ring. The inner sides n of the grip-ring taper inwardly as extended downwardly, and when cast the ends E, E, are separated with one of the ends E, having thereon the spur S, as shown at Figs. 3 and 4. Each of these ends E, is made with an ear c2, laterally projected therefrom and so that when the bristles B2 are hunched and placed within the ring and the sides of the latter are forced together these ears lap past each other and bring theholes O2, therein vertically in line; in which position the rivet N, is inserted through the holes, and clinched on the under side of the lower one of said ears. That one of the vertical ribs indicated at d2, Figs. 3, and 4, and shown as located near to one of the ends E, of the ring engages with the hunched bristles when inserted within the latter, and when the ends of the ring are forced together, its engagement thereat, with the bunched bristles prevents them from being pressed in between the closing ends of the ring. This function of the rib a2, is accomplished by its construction, and by its position relatively to one of the ends of the gripring. As thus constructed and arranged to be closed, the gri p-ring firmly grasps and holds the hunched bristles in place.

The letter O, designates a cap that is preferably made of thin sheet metal of ashape to tit inside of the ring at the top of the latter, and so as to cover the ends of the bristles where Within the ring. This cap C, has punched in it, the riveting holes m, fm, m, that are made to register with the upwardly pro- IOO jected ends of the ribs a, and the rib d2, so thatwhen the capis applied the ends of these ribs will pass up through the holes m, in the cap to be riveted or set thereon to hold the cap in place. As thus made these ribs perform other functions than the ordinary and usual ones of preventing the bristles from r0- tatiug within the ring.

I am aware that a loop-form dauber-brush holder or body-part has been made with ears arranged oppositely upon the inner sides of the two arms forming the handle, and so constructed that when the two handle-parts, and their lapping ears were pinched inwardly together, a ring was formed for the reception of the bristles of the brush-proper; but this construction could not be used in connection with a tang for the reception of a handle thereon.

I am also aware that the construction of gri p-ring which I illustrate and describe, apart from the ribs made to project above its top, the location of one of the ribs with reference to one of the ends of the grip-ring, and the vformation of a handle tang on the holder or body-part, is not my invention.

A dauber-brush having a wooden handle furnishes a much more satisfactory Surface to grasp with the hand than when of irregular form and made of metal, and where the holder or body-part is made with a tang it permits the use of a handle made of other material than wood, andless objectionable than metal.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, iso l. A dauber-brush having aholderorbodypart made with a grip-ring in which the bristles of the brush-proper are held, said gripring being made with interiorly placed vertical ribs that extend above the top of the gripring; a cap arranged within the top of the grip-ring, and constructed to have the ends ofthe ribs where above the grip-ring pass through said cap and be riveted thereon; and a handle arranged on the holderorbody-part substantially in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.

2. A holder or body-part foradauber-brush made with a handle tang laterally projected from the side thereof; and havinga grip-ring cast. with open ends and ears thereon constructed to lap past each other and be connected when the ends of said grip-ring are pinched together; vertical ribs formed on the inside face of the grip-ring, said ribs having their upper ends projected above the top of said grip-ring; all made in one casting, substantially in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The combination with a dauber-brush grip-ring which is cast with open ends that are constructed to be pinched together .to inclose and hold the bristles of the brush-proper, of a vertically placed rib arranged on the interior of said ring near to one of its ends substantially in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.

Signed at Lansingburg, New York,this 15th day of July, 1892, and in the presence of the two Witnesses whose names are hereto written.

WARREN T. KELLOGG.

Witnesses:

W. M. KELLOGG, I-I. H. SHIELDs. 

